This poem can be found in Don Bogen’s book Immediate Song. Click HERE to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page A Citizen by Don Bogen It’s true I lived in the twilight of empire, the glow at the center already muffled in rumor, the provinces...

This poem can be found in Carmen Giménez Smith’s book Milk and Filth. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page Something New by Carmen Giménez Smith’s You have to want the induction of marriage with its lot of glue along with...

This poem can be found in the book Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page Ambition by Gary Soto For years our ambition was to eat Chicken. To sit in the back yard, In an aftershock of heat When the sun...

This poem can be found in A. Molotkov’s book Synonyms for Silence. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page Lightening by A. Molotkov I wrap my mother’s body in a small blanket. She is light in my arms. Sprawled by a fig tree, my...

This poem can be found in dawn lonsinger’s book Whelm. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page [but the rain is full of ghosts tonight] by dawn lonsinger and it has taken something from me, driven my feet from the earth, tendered a...

This poem can be found in The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. Click here to purchase. Click on the printer icon to print this page Animals by Frank O’Hara Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an...